Journey to Ukraine: Medzhybizh - The Kever of the Ohev Yisroel, Rav Avraham Yehoshua Heschel

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Masorah from the Apta Rabbi. So, he wasn't just great in Hasidus, he was also a great Posek. Rabbi the Shalom writes about him over the front of the time of the Hakumim, he was Makarev them. And the the Shalom writes, our parents told us that when he was here, all the Gedolei Yisrael would come to greet him. In other words, Rabbi Yisrael was recognized the whole of Yisrael as one of the great Rabbanim in Klal Yisrael. He was a Rabbi in many communities. As we mentioned, he was a Rabbi in Koselov, in Apta, in Yas. But he had a special affinity to Mezibuzh even though he's known as the Apta Rabbi, he said that he always wants to be associated with Mezibuzh. He had a special Chavivus for the city of Mezibuzh. A very interesting thing that he writes and I think it's an important lesson in Adar where you know, everybody loves to learn different Sefarim and there there are endless number of Sefarim. There's so many Sefarim. You could basically learn

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